Online social networks are Web sites that enable people to create a network of connections to other individuals. Through the Internet communities that make up social networks, people can contact ...

Betting that the social networking niche of the online services market will become broader and more established, Emode.com has tripled its social networking members by buying competitor Ringo, Emode ...

Spending too much time social networking appears to be a key driver in loneliness, but a new article suggests motivated uses of social networking sites for connecting with people and feeling ...

Americans still turn to Facebook more often than any other social media site for their news consumption, according to the latest analysis from the Pew Research Center. But Facebook’s dominance as a ...

The Department of Defense has banned the use of social networking sites by soldiers in Iraq, but a U.S. Representative has asked the Department to reconsider its policy U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass ...

On February 4, 2004, a Harvard University undergrad named Mark Zuckerberg introduced TheFacebook.com, a social networking site for his fellow students. Twenty years after its launch, social media ...

In case you haven’t heard, Facebook got two very cool upgrades recently, with the introduction of group chat and video chat — thanks, in large part, to a partnership with Skype. Props to Mark ...